Socks. They defy all rational notions of space, time and logic.

[HoneyDragon]

I can present the following as absolute evidence that I am not being in any way unreasonable or incorrect in my aforementioned statement

1. The square footage of my house is half the square footage that would be taken up by the amount of socks that have gone missing over the 14 years we have resided here. They must go SOMEWHERE ELSE because we are not swimming through odd socks.

1. I have 4 feet that belong to two children. They wear 4 socks a day. I swear I pick up at least 7 children's socks of the floor every day. Very occasionally they may belong to a surplus child that does not reside on the premises. That means every year I pick up at least 1095 unaccounted socks. These however are not the ones missing from statement 1.

1. They magnetically repel each other. Socks are sold in pairs. Within precisely one week of purchase at least one has inexplicably and irrevocably disappeared. I suspect cannibalism.

1. They defy organisation. Even through regularly culling, sorting and restraining with drawers they immediately relocate to under beds, knicker drawers and occasionally the car.

AIBU?

Throw out all of your socks. Buy multipacks of identical completely plain socks.
You will save much time & energy

Socks are the topic of choice this Saturday morning, apparently

Tried that with the largest male sock user, we are still utilising this practise. Each and every single sock has mutated to a slightly different shade of black.

How bizarre. Do you think we should do more during the week, so socks are not a major issue of procrastination?

"hrow out all of your socks. Buy multipacks of identical completely plain socks.
You will save much time & energy"

Doesn't work. They quietly change colour as soon as unwrapped. After a week they are all slightly different shades.......

You forgot to mention the mystery of how a brand new pair of socks can develop a home bigger than a toe within one week of purchase.

And where do people buy these mythical multipacks of plain coloured socks? Every shop I look in has millions of packs of mismatched picture socks and a choice of grey white black or navy school socks. I have never in my life seen a multipack of plain coloured socks all the same colour

Home = hole

M&S do a fresh feet range as do bhs. However as soon as they reach a home environment they immediately revert to 16 different shades of black.

I recognise this sock issue. I seem to have a similar issue with my teaspoons. Do you think they run away together?

The sock and the teaspoon went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat...

I think everyone has a household logic defying item. Mine is teaspoons. I always have millions.

But I always lose pens. I never have a proper pen, can only ever find a dried up highlighter

socks make me rock in the corner it drives me crackers I do a sock clear out every few months it is liberating i even did the same colour thing but they still end up odd mine just wear whatever socks lying around tbh i gave up years ago

hone, we used to have exactly the same problem in our house. Whenever we came across an unpaired sock, we washed it and then, when dry, put it in a bag in the bottom of my wardrobe. Once a month I would go through the bag pairing up socks (how organised am I??) on the grounds that the other sock would have turned up and they could be reunited. Sadly, about 75% of the socks stayed partnerless. After about a year my DH and I had a conversation about the mystery of the missing socks whereupon it transpired that he had been putting all the odd socks he rescued from the laundry into a bag at the bottom of the airing cupboard. When we compared our two bags we managed to reunite 90% of the socks.... still doesn't account for the other 10%.

They don't go missing - don't be silly, they can't just get up and walk away. tut.

The truth is that they change patterns - like a chameleon, it's a substance that government coat over them to make us buy more allowing them to slip things pass the media whilst we are occupied by looking for socks. How do you think Cameron got the funding for that 'happiness' thingy?

Either that or it's the Zombies

The sock and the teaspoon went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat...

and apparently picked up some pens on the way...

do zombies need socks, teaspoons and pens? I have a picture in my head now of one of the walking dead in a suit, with a briefcase, sitting a desk...

Yadnbu!!

Socks are the bane of my life... Acaply if I'm honest, I've been trying to make matching socks DH's responsibility so they are the bane of his life

But where do they go???!!!! I think the tumble drier is secretly alive and eats them... It's the only answer.

And spoons good god the spoons - we have 3 DCs and have the Ikea plastic cutlery sets, all forks and knives still intact but no spoons, so I bought another set. All double set forks and knives still intact but there are no fricking spoons again. The baby spoons have also gone although is suspect if I wasn't so lazy and vacuumed properly more often I may find them under the sofa as DS does enjoy a good game of push small things under the sofa.

We are in the process of moving house and I'm currently scanning the Ikea catalogue resolving to buy every clever piece of storage they have so that EVERYTHING in the new house will have a place to go.. And be found

Wishful thinking?!?!

But where do they go???!!!! I think the tumble drier is secretly alive and eats them... It's the only answer.

is what i think a hungry tumble dryer , once i was handing them socks in pairs from a secret stash i had hoping they would all come back was like ration socks but nope ,

Another reason to love summer - fewer socks required.

tip trills I manage to get black socks for school sorted out , my mum can notice an odd pair of black socks a mile off she said to dd the other day Why are you not wearing a pair and she tutted,

They don't always vanish forever, though. Sometimes they just hide, until you give up all hope of finding them and throw away the orphan sock that has been sitting forlornly in the odd sock pile for months weeks - then the devious little bugger turns up, with a massive smug grin!

My dh tries to hide his socks- but the children always find them. They say his are nicer than theirs. Which they are- he buys himself posh ones, I buy the children multi packs.

Personally I think they are swallowed by washing machine. Baby ones anyway. I used to have a bag for kids odd socks like MrsAMerrick but every time I tried to pair them up I would still end up with a shoe-bag worth of odd ones - at least 60%.

We are 6 = 12 socks/day
They multiply and disappear and reappear in random places.
I fear they are gaslighting me...

We have hundreds of pairs of black(ish) school/work socks in subtly different shades of black AND different sizes, aaaargh!

I take great satisfaction of sticking matching pairs of socks together but every now and then It Gets Too Much for me and I am tempted to deploy the MN solution: one big box/basket in which ALL socks go and anybody needing socks has to help themselves

ha! gaslighting socks...yes, that's exactly it!